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  • noun R. & Obs. A prophetic or ominous utterance.

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  • Poul Henningsen won the support of many fellow-writers, who took his criticisms to their logical conclusion by introducing written forms which more accurately reflected pronunciation: simply omitting any misleading letters, so that for example they wrote osse in order to avoid the frightful pronunciation ouså i.e. også, 'also'.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

  • It was osse a step in the right direction when the Language Reform made it officially acceptable to dispense with the silent d in the words ville (wished), kunne (could) and skulle (should).

    Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Item flagello sagittas tangere, iuuenes aues capere vel occidere, cum fræno equum peroutere, os cum osse alio frangere.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Extrahitur verò gummi de arbusculis per hunc modem: De lapide acuto, vel de osse fracto dant scissuras per cortices in ligno, et ex vulneribus Balsamum lachrymatur, quod in vasculis suscipiunt, cauentes quout possunt, ne quid de illo labatur in terram: Nam se de ferro, vel alio metallo fieret incissura, liquor

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Extrahitur ver� gummi de arbusculis per hunc modem: De lapide acuto, vel de osse fracto dant scissuras per cortices in ligno, et ex vulneribus Balsamum lachrymatur, quod in vasculis suscipiunt, cauentes quout possunt, ne quid de illo labatur in terram: Nam se de ferro, vel alio metallo fieret incissura, liquor

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Item flagello sagittas tangere, iuuenes aues capere vel occidere, cum fr鎛o equum peroutere, os cum osse alio frangere.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Item iuuenes aues occidere, vel accipere: cum froeno equum percutere, Item os cum osse alio frangere.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Although mankind had given itself gr osse trouble to investigate the part the galaxy it inhabited, gave it still sufficient unknown areas.

    The Trouble Twisters Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • We see among them no representative of Confucius, Chi-hoagti, and the sect of Ta-osse; no magi; no Pisistratus and Harmodius; no Socrates and Alcibiades; no patricians and plebeians; no Cæsar; no invasion or adoption of foreign mysteries; no mythical impersonation of an Ali; no

    Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845

  • Mehemiurn autem dici poterit, ubi aliquis in aliqua. parte sui corporis la sionern acceperit, per quam affectus sit inutilis ad pugnandum: ut sirnanus ampuletur, vel pes, octilus privetur, vel scerda de osse capitis lavetnr, vel si quis dentes praer. isores amiserit, vel castratus fuerit, et talis pro mahemiato poterit adjudicari. '

    Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

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